The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #147: Saadia Faruqi
“If you can’t really tell the whole story in five thousand words, are you really a writer?”
Mini-Interviews
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project features short interviews with interesting people.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #146: Andrew Solomon
“I can tell my story with precautions; others strip away my armor and expose a beating heart.”
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #145: Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
“Categories are, by definition, externally created and applied.”
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #144: Cathy Linh Che
“I think a safe space is one of deep listening and deep caring.”
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #143: Saul Austerlitz
“I felt that Meredith Hunter was the invisible figure at the center of the story.”
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #142: Chelsea Hodson
“If I didn’t allow myself to be vulnerable on the page, I wouldn’t get anywhere.”
The Rumpus Mini-Interview #141: Tara Isabella Burton
“I want to make a case for the serious, literary legitimacy of the female experience of self-construction.”
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #140: Alicia Kopf
“We need narrative patterns to understand reality.”
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #139: Debra Jo Immergut
“If the door doesn’t open, it’s okay to walk away, give your poor head a rest. And try again later.”
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #138: Melissa Broder
"We have what we need inside us already, it's just a question of uncovering it, of remembering who we are again and again."
The Rumpus Mini-interview Project #137: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
"Admitting a love or joy, or yes, wonder for the natural world is, especially as a woman of color, one of the most vulnerable things we can do."
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #136: Shy Watson
"I do think when I write it’s kind of therapy or having to tell someone everything or maybe writing it gets it out of my head?"